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See also:MORTILLET, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:LAURENT See also:GABRIEL DE (1821-1898) , See also:French anthropologist, was See also:born at Meylau, See also:Isere, on the 29th of See also:August 1821. He was educated at the Jesuit See also:college of See also:Chambery and at the See also:Paris See also:Conservatoire. Becoming in 1847 proprietor of La Revue independante, he was implicated in the Revolution of 1848 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. He fled the See also:country and during the next fifteen years lived abroad, chiefly in See also:Italy. In 1858 he turned his See also:attention to ethnological See also:research, making a See also:special study of the Swiss See also:lake-dwellings. He returned to Paris in 1864, and soon afterwards was appointed See also:curator of the museum at St. Germain. He became See also:mayor of the See also:town, and in 1885 he was elected See also:deputy for See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise. He had meantime founded a See also:review, Materiaux pour l'histoire See also:positive et philosophique de l'homme, and in See also:conjunction with See also:Broca assisted to found the French School of See also:Anthropology. He died at St Germain-en-Laye on the 25th of See also:September 1898. Of his published See also:works the best known are .Le Prehistorique (1882); Origines de la See also:chasse, de la petche et de l'See also:agriculture (189o); See also:Les Negres et la civilisation egyptienne (1884).
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